Friday, June 14, 2013

Not An Act Of Invention

Myriad did not create anything.  To be sure, it found an important and useful gene, but separating that gene from its surrounding genetic material is not an act of invention.

-- Justice Clarence Thomas, in the unanimous Supreme Court decision barring the patenting of human genes, 13 June 2013
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